The day after the guided blocks I had to continue to complete a pain diary, although the blocks didn't really hold for the sake of the 3 minute test, I never managed that again, and by Wednesday my pain was back to full pelt and strength. I sent back my diary and comments to Rob.
On Friday I received a very unexpected email from him saying that because I had responded so well to the blocks [I hadn't really], that I could be a candidate for botox and a physiotherapy plan. However this would be very costly, and was not something that I had been expected, neither was it discussed at my long appointment in mid-May. I was rather cross, because it was not an excellent result, and I had expected to be having surgery, as per my consultation in May.
Later in the day Rob came back to me with two options for surgery, one being at Oxford with a surgeon who had recently been ill and there were rumours online he was not taking on new patients and probably had a long waiting list. Then there was a surgeon in Wolverhampton who would have had a much shorter wait. Since it is the weekend, I am going to ring both hospitals on Monday and see how the land lies.
I can only really see surgery as the long-term way out of this, whilst I have also made contact with my pain management consultant about attempting further nerve blocks on the NHS.
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